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Photocopy of booklet 'Turner & Newall today' (n.d.), an overview of the company’s global achievements and organisation, including emphasis on its deliberate decentralisation (p. 30). Also stressed is that the parent company “is responsible for the operation of the Turner & Newall Ltd Asbestos Fibre Laboratory in Manchester, the only establishment in the world exclusively devoted to fundamental research on asbestos".

Photocopy of typescript ‘Turner & Newall: the first fifty years', by L T C Rolt, c.1970. Also includes photocopy of form 'Department of Employment Medical Examination of Asbestos Workers (Asbestos Regulations 1969)', marked "From Ferodo".

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (1910-1974) was an English writer and engineer.

Photocopy of booklet ‘Turner & Newall Ltd’, designed, produced and printed by George Pulman & Sons Ltd, Thayer Street, London. Appeared after the company was registered at a Manchester address, i.e. 1949 or after.

Foliated minutes and papers of T&N Ltd Board and Executive Committee meetings. Includes an inventory. Among subjects covered are reports on the Asbestosis Fund, information on employers’ liability insurance for asbestosis, asbestosis cases, research into asbestosis and mesothelioma cases and claims, deaths of asbestos workers, claims and payments, etc.

Copies of minutes and other papers relating to T&N Board and Executive Committee meetings, 1967-1990.

Corporate correspondence and papers re media coverage on the asbestos industry, in particular the Yorkshire Television documentary ‘First Tuesday: Too close to home’ (broadcast 6 December 1988). 'Too close to home' told the story of the Armley community, where mortality from mesothelioma was unusually high due to exposure to asbestos dust from J W Roberts factory, which had closed in 1958.

Includes

• correspondence re I M D Grieve's MD thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1927) on asbestos deaths at the J W Roberts factory at Armley
• list of J W Roberts compensation claims to 1988
• correspondence re the Leeds mesothelioma study of Dr Lorna Arblaster

A copy of Grieve's MD thesis was removed as it duplicated copies elsewhere in the archive. See link below.

Photocopy of typescript 'TAC history: origin to end of 1967'

T&N records re legal costs of asbestos claims. Includes copies of lawyers' bills, records of claims payments, etc.

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to T&N seminars of Industrial Medical Officers (IMO seminars), 1970-1974. Also re offering similar seminars for GPs in the Rochdale area.

Chiefly correspondence between National Coal Board and Turner Brothers Ltd, Rochdale, re dust samplers and dust sampling. Includes results of dust sampling and counting, Rochdale Factory 'B' block, 1957.

Correspondence and papers re health and asbestos, in particular crocidolite (blue asbestos) 1959-1982.

The aggregation was triggered by J C Wagner's discovery, in South Africa, of a probable relationship between exposure to crocidolite and mesothelioma. (See Wagner (1959), 'Some pathological aspects of asbestos in the Union of South Africa', in \Proceedings of the Pneumoconiosis Conference held at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 1959\, ed. A J Orenstein (London: J&A Churchhill Ltd, 1960): 383–390).

Closes with a 6pp summary ‘T&N’s use and sale of blue asbestos’ (n.d.) and listing of ‘Asbestos and health: possible questions’ by PR company Hill and Knowlton International, London, c.1982.

Further includes photocopies of ‘Bulletin JWR’ (n.d., c.1960s).

Correspondence and papers, itemised, re new shipbuilding regulations. Includes many draft versions of the regulations. Also covers asbestosis statistics and meetings of the Scottish Insulating Engineers' Association.

Continues a similar series (1944-1950) that forms part of the Nancy Tait - Michael O'Connor correspondence. See link below.

Chiefly T&N's periodical compilations of pneumoconiosis / asbestosis cases, c.1944-1966, starting at around the time when the Workmen's Compensation Acts were replaced by the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act (1946). Also corporate correspondence.

This aggregation was processed by SPAID: Nancy Tait instructed her colleague Mrs Robinson to number the documents and to extract case information. The resulting table lists all case names including any information that seemed ususual, such as 'death at a young age', 'lung cancer', 'short exposure'.

Correspondence re asbestosis litigation in the US.

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to persuade the Northern Ireland Hospital Authority not to ban the use of asbestos products in its hospitals.